WADA, Senzo. Shikisai Haigo-ban. 8vo. 250 x 175 mm bound in publisher's colour illustrated boards which open to three panels with some explanatory text; a framed panel with eight colour strips which holds eight separate coloured cellophane filters in card frames; and a rotating volvelle with cellophane colour filters. In.....
Item nr. 165377
Price: $1,500.00
ARP, Hans. Vingt-cinq Poemes. By Tristan Tzara. [26 ff.], illustrated with 10 woodcuts by Arp. 8vo, 205 x 145 mm., bound in original printed boards with a design by Arp, in a new slipcase. Zurich: Heuberger, 1918.
First edition. The edition bears no limitation but was extremely small. The book is.....
Item nr. 168746
Price: $12,500.00
LISSITZKY, El. USSR im Bau. Der Nordost-Seeweg ist offen. No. 9. [ca. 58] pp., illustrated with Russian photomontage images throughout and a concertina foldout plate. Folio, 415 x 300 mm., bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Moscow: Staatlicher Kunstverlag, 1933.
A copy of one of many.....
Item nr. 167438
Price: $1,750.00
CRAIG, Edward Gordon. The Mask. A Monthly Journal of the Art of the Theatre. A complete set of eighty-seven issues (bound in seventy-one parts) in sixteen volumes (fifteen volumes of magazines, and an additional volume of covers and inserts from 1911-1915). Volumes I to III have title pages and index.....
Item nr. 168494
Price: $12,500.00
[LUYKEN, J.] Leerzaamme zamenspraaken, over eenige dieren, vogels, insecten, en visschen. [2], vi, [4], 296, [8] pp. Illustrated with 25 engraved plates and woodcut tailpieces. 8vo., 200 x 120 mm, bound in contemporary Dutch calf, boards with blind tooling and gilt fillets. Amsterdam: Erven van F. Houttuin, 1769.
A handome copy.....
Item nr. 168263
Price: $2,850.00
BENHAM, W. Gurney and Frank ADAMS. Arthur and the Boilybird. An A.B.C. Story. Unpaginated. With colour illustrations throughout by Frank Adams. Oblong quarto publisher's colour illustrated boards with cloth spine. London: Blackie & Son [1909].
A delightful and scarce early twentieth century children's ABC book in unusually fine condition. OCLC lists.....
Item nr. 165808
Price: $2,500.00
RUSSIAN TOY CATALOGUE. Sat'amashoebis laboratoriis ek'sponatebis albomi. [Album of Toy Laboratory Exhibits]. 80 pp., illustrated with photographs and coloured diagrams. 180 x 276 mm., bound in original cloth with lettering and decoration on the front cover. Tbilisi: Zaria Vostoka, 1941.
This album showcases toys and educational materials for kindergarten children produced.....
Item nr. 165322
Price: $2,500.00 save 30% $1,750.00
MORRIS, John. A Series of large geological Diagrams, illustrating the Principles of this important and practical Science, comprising elementary Section of the Earth's Crust, Table of the Order of Succession of the stratified Rocks, forms of Stratification, Section of the London Basin ... the carboniferous Group - Coal and Iron.....
Item nr. 164759
Price: $3,250.00
KYOKARAKAMI, [JAPANESE PATTERN PAPER]. Kara nagatezuri mokuhan monyo [Kara-cho Designs for Hand-Printed Woodcut Pattern Paper.] Edited by Ansou Hisao. Preface by Osaragi Jiro. Two volumes. Contents includes: 2 ff. prefaces, 102 sheets of decorated papers, printed in colours from the original woodblocks on Kurotani paper, sheet size 390 x 510.....
Item nr. 163891
Price: $12,500.00
JOURDAIN, Amable Louis Marie Michel Brèchillet. La Perse ou tableau de l'histoire, du government, de la religion, de la literature, etc., de cet empire; des moeurs et coustumes de ses habitans. 5 volumes. [4], xxi, 218; [4], 268; [4], 226; [4] 288; [4] 327, pp. Illustrated with 5 hand-colured engraved.....
Item nr. 148711
Price: $7,500.00
AMERICAN MUSIC. Mammoth Musical Exercises: or, Musical Diagrams for the Singing Class, Designed to save Teachers much Labor at the Blackboard. By Lowell Mason. 60 ff. of printed music. Elephant folio, 615 x 515 mm., bound in contemporary American marbled boards with new brown calf spine and corners. New York.....
Item nr. 145949
Price: $7,500.00
[LOMONOSOV, Mikhail Vasil'evich]. [Jean-Baptiste CHARPENTIER]. Elemens de la langue russe ou Methode courte et facile pour apprendre cette lanuge conformement a l'usage. [16], 368 pp. 8vo., contemporary sheep, smooth spine with gilt fleurons, red morocco lettering-piece "Grammaire Russe". St. Petersburg: Academie Imperiale des Sciences, 1768.
First Edition. A key publication in.....
Item nr. 121950
Price: $2,500.00
EXCEPTIONAL DELUXE BINDING
KIPLING, Rudyard. The Works of Rudyard Kipling. Twenty-seven volumes expanded to fifty-one. 8vo., 237 x 152 mm, bound in full deluxe red morocco, elaborate gilt borders, spines elaborately gilt, silk moire endleaves, turn-ins inlaid with blue morocco, gilt extra with wide dentelles composed of small ornamental tools and.....
Item nr. 117290
Price: $15,000.00
[STANLEY, Henry, editor and English translator]. LIONNE, Artus de, Bishop of Rosalie. Chinese Manual. Sse tse ouen tsien-tchou … Four words literature (with) commentary (or) explication … Recueil des phrases Chinoises composées de quartre caractères et dont les explications sont rangées dans l'ordre alphabétique francais. viii, 75 pp. Folio, bound.....
Item nr. 110041
Price: $1,500.00
DALI, SALVADOR. The Secret Life of Salvador Dali. 400 pp., profusely illus. 4to, cloth and illustrated dust jacket in a new cloth folding box.. New York, Dial, 1942.
With an elaborate double page inscription cum drawing by Dali. From the library of the photographer Arnold Crane with his signature on the.....
Item nr. 1560
Price: $4,750.00
EAST ASIA. An Official Guide to Eastern Asia. Trans-Continental Connections between Europe and Asia. Vol. I: Manchuria & Chosen. Vol. II: South-Western Japan. Vol. III: North-Eastern Japan. Vol. IV: China. Vol. V: East Indies. Five volumes. I: [2], LXXXVI, 350 pp., illustrated with 17 colour folding maps, 16 black and.....
Item nr. 153804
Price: $3,500.00
ANTOLINI, Giovanni Antonio. Progetto sul Foro Bonaparte che doveva Eseguirsi in Milano in 24 Gran Tavole. Title-page and suite of twenty-four plates, comprising 14 magnificent double-page aquatint views printed in shades of sepia ink and 10 double-page engraved floor-plans and scaled architectural drawings. Large folio, 572 x 440 mm., bound.....
Item nr. 168399
Price: $35,000.00
DIEBENKORN, Richard. Poems of W.B. Yeats. Selected and introduced by Helen Vendler. xxv, [3], 171, [2] pp. 4to, 260 x 205 mm, bound in half red morocco over green cloth, in a green and red slipcase. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1990.
Limited edition of 426 copies. Yeats's poems, printed with.....
Item nr. 164400
Price: $3,850.00
ROCHAS, Albert de. Le Livre de Demain. 44 separate fascicles comprising 424 pp., illustrated with 11 original samples of rare old paper, 4 chromatic circles, 6 silhouettes by P. Konewka and 5 plates of which 3 are etchings and 2 are reproductions. 8vo, 225 x 140 mm., loose as issued.....
Item nr. 168538
Price: $9,500.00
LE BLON, Jacques-Christophe and Antoine GAUTIER DE MONTDORGE. L'Art d'Imprimer les Tableaux. Traité d'après les Ecrits, les Opérations & les Instructions verbales, de J.C. Le Blon. xi, vi, [2], [xiii]-xxv, [26]-180, [4] pp., illustrated with 1 hand coloured sepia mezzotint and two black and white folding plates. 8vo, 195 x......
Item nr. 166681
Price: $15,000.00
MOSCOW. "Souvenir de Moscou". The prints measuring 162 x 222 mm. Oblong folio, 240 x 340 mm, bound in contemporary three-quarter morocco. NP, ND. [Moscow,1904?]
$ 3500.00
The 24 plates depict the major sights along the Moscva River, Red Square, the Kremlin, St. Basils Cathedral, etc. in early colour photography. The album.....
Item nr. 162671
Price: $2,250.00
HERRICK, Robert. Poems Chosen Out of The Works of Robert Herrick. xiv, [2], 296 pp. 8vo., bound in original full vellum, four green ties. Hammermith: The Kelmscott Press, 1895.
The finest edition of the poetry of this seventeenth century poet who for a long time was more or less neglected, but.....
Item nr. 150516
Price: $3,250.00
ALPHABET BOOK. Alfabeto da Phosphatina Falières. 8 ff. With 12 colour-printed illustrations by Timoleon Marie Lobrichon. 8vo., stitched as issued in original illustrated wrappers. Paris: Phosphatine Falières, n.d. [ca. 1905].
The Portuguese edition of a charming "Abécédaire" which is not recorded in Gumuchian, or Osborne. The illustrations combine infants or children.....
Item nr. 149590
Price: $1,250.00
HÜMMER, Waldemar. Ohne Mode. 20 weibliche Akstudien nach der Natur. Fur Künstler und Künstfreunde. Half-title, title-page. Illustrated with 20 photographic plates. Folio, 320 x 220, loose in original illustrated polychrome green chemise. Leipzig: A. Schumann's Verlag, ND [1902].
A fine copy of this fin-de-siècle study of female nudes, elegantly posed and.....
Item nr. 145858
Price: $850.00
BRUNHOFF, Jean de. A.B.C. de Babar. [48] pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. 8vo., 210 x 162 mm, bound in original publisher's decorated boards, decorated endpapers, in a new yellow cloth folding box. Paris: Editions du Jardin des Modes, 1934.
First Edition. A number of Babar's friends may be seen herein among.....
Item nr. 145089
Price: $1,250.00